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and drinks twice as much water as anybody else, he gets twice the dose.
It is an uncontrolled medication, and people are falling ill from it. Has it been tested on humans? That is the next point. I heard just the other day a statement by a member of the AMA that it does not affect anybody, that it has never been tested. Well, it has been tested on humans. Moolenburgh, to present the case to the people of Holland, did a double blind test with lawyers. They had a group of general practitioners and their wives who submitted themselves to this.
The victims of fluoridation at one part per million showed us that poisoning was present. They showed that the whole population was imbibing a slow-acting poison and that these patients with side effects were simply the first ones. The poisoning was not an allergy; it was poisoning, in the same way as if we added arsenic or other such poisons to the water supply.
There are 15 countries that, after 20-odd years of fluoridation of their water supplies, have now ceased fluoridation. We have also been told that in Japan they have got bad teeth and they do not have fluoride. Well, you cannot compare Japanese activity in this area. Their diet is different; they have a higher cancer rate; they have blood pressure problems and hypertension because of their diet. I recommend that we cease this mad act of pollution of our water supply.
I seek leave to present the explanatory memorandum for this Bill.
Leave granted.
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES - SELECT COMMITTEE
MR JENSEN (10.52): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to amend notice of motion No. 2 standing in my name on the notice paper by altering paragraph (3) to read: "the committee shall consist of Mr Duby, Mr Humphries, Mr Moore and Mr Wood.".
Leave granted.
MR JENSEN: I move:
That -
(1) a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report on cultural activity in the ACT with particular reference to:
(a) the range and adequacy of existing facilities for the preparation,
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